Recent advances in medical technology have provided healthcare staff with the possibility of maintaining the life of a brain-dead pregnant woman on life-support in order to achieve successful delivery of the fetus. Management of Post-Mortem Pregnancy examines the legal and ethical difficulties surrounding such post-mortem management. The book provides: * An exploration of legal and ethical difficulties surrounding such cases; * Practical guidance based on a combined analysis of similar situations that affect pregnant women's lifestyle and physical condition and of the legal framework of pregnancy clauses in advance directive legislation; * A consideration of pregnant women's obligation towards their fetuses and major relational feminist notions of pregnancy, fetuses, death and the human body; * An examination of tissue gift laws that regulate the area of general interventions on dead patients; * A discussion of the main moral, legal, psychological, religious, spiritual, and physical aspects of the question on the interests of dead people; as well as the jurisprudential question of the fetus' interests; * A practical test to aid decision-making. Management of Post-Mortem Pregnancy will be a valuable guide for all those involved with the decision-making process of such tragic cases. It will also be of wider use to all those with an interest in legal, ethical and bio-medical issues.